HBA-NLM, MAJ H.B. 738 76(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 738
By: Brown, Betty
Elections
3/30/1999
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

This bill provides that unless an election recount petition requests that
the recount be limited to certain precincts, an initial recount in an
election for which there is no canvass at the state level must include each
election precinct in the election.  H.B. 738  also includes an exception
that authorizes an initial recount to include any one or more election
precincts in which counting errors occurred, as certified by the secretary
of state.  


RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 212.131(a), Election Code, as follows:

(a)  Adds the provision that unless an election recount petition requests
that the recount be limited to certain precincts, an initial recount in an
election for which there is no canvass at the state level must include each
election precinct in the election, except as provided by Subsection (d). 

SECTION 2.  Effective date: September 1, 1999.

SECTION 3.  Emergency clause.